It is extremely rare for Holbein works to emerge onto the market. The only recent example is Holbein’s Sir Thomas Wyatt (pictured), which was sold in London for a reported £6.8 million Photo: SOTHEBY’S
The painting was thought to be a reproduction of the Renaissance artist’s work and bought for just £1,900 at an auction [...]
The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in Chelsea will close at the end of this month. That may not mean much to most of the art world’s hipper denizens, but it will to visionary and psychedelic-art fans for whom the chapel has been a mecca since it opened in 2004.
Alex Grey, “Seraphic Transport Docking on the [...]
The Groninger Museum presents the largest-ever retrospective of works by the world-famous British artist John William Waterhouse (1849-1917). Many splendid paintings and drawings have been borrowed from locations as far afield as Australia, England, Ireland, Taiwan and Canada. The exhibition has been organized in conjunction with the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the [...]
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg presents today Roy Lichtenstein – Posters – First composed: C. 70 exhibits from the period 1962 – 1997, on view through March 1, 2009. In all, Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) designed something like seventy posters, which are brought together here for the first time. They give an overview of the [...]
Ludovico Carracci (1555–1619) and his two cousins, the brothers Agostino (1557–1602) and Annibale (1560–1609) Carracci, together brought about a revolution in the study and practice of painting that forever changed the history of art. The repercussions on European painting—a measured classicism and the expression of genuine emotion that characterized Baroque art—lasted for the next 250 [...]
Here at the Städel Museum “The Master of Flémalle and Rogier van der Weyden” is an old-fashioned whodunit. Almost exhaustingly erudite, it mixes up very great Netherlandish paintings of the 15th century with a few not so great ones to unravel perennial questions from galaxy academe about which artist painted what.
Why should we care? For [...]
The British have been in a bit of a froth ever since the Duke of Sutherland announced he needed to sell a pair of Titian masterpieces, with a Dec. 31 deadline set for “Diana and Actaeon.” The National Gallery of Scotland, where the picture has been on loan since 1945, and London’s National Gallery have [...]